Genetic and environmental influences on blood pressure and body mass index in Han Chinese: A twin study

Hypertension Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-179

  Wu, Ting ^a,b   Snieder, Harold ^b,c   Li, Liming ^a   Cao, Weihua ^a   Zhan, Siyan ^a   Lv, Jun ^a   Gao, Wenjing ^a   Wang, Xiaoling ^c   Ding, Xiuhua ^c   Hu, Yonghua ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure; heritability; interaction; obesity; twin

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 79751479342     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2010.194     Document Type: Article

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